- Dennis Domrzalski
- Reporter- Albuquerque Business First
The New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange board made several major moves on Friday, hiring an interim CEO and naming an information technology vendor and project manager.
The board named Mike Nunez its interim CEO. Nunez, a 30-year health care veteran, has been the executive director of the New Mexico Health Insurance Alliance since November 2009.
He will serve as interim leader of the health exchange at least through the first quarter of 2014, when the exchange board hopes to name a long-term CEO. It was unclear whether Nunez would have to resign from the Alliance.
“I’m just happy to serve. There is a lot of work to do, it is going to take an army,” Nunez said afterward.
Insurance exchange board member Ben Slocum said the organization will issue bids for a national firm to conduct the search for the long-term CEO. The firm will be hired by Nov. 1, Slocum said.
The board also selected Getinsured.com as its IT vendor. It will pay the firm $39.9 million over five years.
The other finalist was Deloitte LLP.
Deloitte’s work would have cost $60 million over five years, and the state would have owned the site. GetInsured will host the site and make any changes and updates needed.
The board named Public Consulting Group as the project manager for the exchange. Its contract will be worth an estimated $1.4 million to $1.7 million.
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